American Paint & Coatings Journal articles from February 1996

American Paint & Coatings Journal archives from February 1996

Paint industry faces major issues.(Industry Overview)
February 26, 1996... Paint manufacturers urged to cooperate Kansas City - Managing leftover paint is the major issue facing the coatings industry at the state level, according to experts in the field. Other major issues include VOC, limitations on the sale of...

Using experimental design to evaluate powder coatings (part II).
February 26, 1996... DATA COLLECTION The experiment was carried out by first preparing a large powder coating formulation containing 40 percent TiO2 filler, 0.8 percent flow modifier, and 59.2 percent binder, which consisted of a 40/60 ratio of epoxy resin to...

Reducing paper consumption.
February 26, 1996... Organizations today are chipping away at huge internal paper volumes. They are redesigning documents for screen viewing, and re-engineering business processes not only in an effort to create a "paperless office," but also to cut expenses as the...

New additives improve performance of water-borne paints.
February 26, 1996... Paints containing organic solvents are being replaced by systems that are solvent-free or contain a considerably reduced quantity of solvent. New developments in the field of additives have made it possible to formulate waterborne paints with...

Taxes, business, interest rates puzzle marketers.(Industry Overview)
February 26, 1996... Flat tax, flat business conditions, concurrent lowering of the interest rates and consumer confidence pose a puzzlement for marketers as we near the leap year value-added day. Presidential primaries, a rise in the supply of mud for slinging and...

Industry scores successes in states. (coatings industry)
February 12, 1996... Lead, leftover paint, aerosols among issues handled by state paint councils Kansas City - Childhood lead poisoning, leftover paint, aerosol/graffiti legislation and national versus state VOC rules are among the major issues confronting the...

New technology is coming from a supplier near you. (powder coatings)(Column)
February 12, 1996... Fred Speckmann was lost in the East Coast's recent high-solids weather (i.e., a fog bank you could cut with a bag of slitter) when much to his widening eyes should appear, but a raw material supplier, but without the eight tiny reindeer. With...

Using experimental design to evaluate powder coatings, part 1.
February 12, 1996... FOREWORD Through the use of designed experiments and the statistical analysis of the resulting data, coating-property evaluations can be achieved with efficiency, cost effectiveness, and a high degree of certainty. This paper discusses...

Wanted: equipment manufacturers. (includes related article)(NPCA on the Issues)
February 12, 1996... The program book from the 1995 Paint Industries' Show in St Louis lists 90 different companies that are engaged in the manufacture of production equipment. The equipment is used in the manufacture of paints and coatings to meter and dispense...

The markets. (end-use markets and raw materials for the paint industry)
February 12, 1996... By its very nature, marketing suggests the use of adjectives. The choice of terms to describe the end - use markets for the paint industry as January cane to a close were varied, as usual, and somewhat cautious. Flat, lack-luster, plateauing...

Universal challenge: formulating in a new TiO2 era. (titanium dioxide)(Technical Focus)
February 12, 1996... For the past two decades, most TiO2 producers have offered the U.S. market a minimum of eight to 12 dry grades for coatings. The marketing emphasis was on special products for real or contrived end uses sending competitors scrambling for...